[French air force parachute, A plane takes off with a man with raised arms up front, and a first-time jumping student aboard at Paratrooper school in Avignon-Pujaut, France]

[French air force parachute, A student about to make his first jump looking and pointing out of plane in the sky, close-up at Paratrooper school in Avignon-Pujaut, France]

[French air force parachute, Man on left watches parachutist through telescope, Lieutenant Disdier commander of the school, looks into the sky on the right at Paratrooper school in Avignon-Pujaut, France]

[Wounded veterans processing in street, Paris]

[American troops landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy]

[People strolling in the street, Paris]

[Pablo Picasso standing in front of the exterior gate of in his attic studio in Rue des Grands Augustins, Paris]

[Pablo Picasso standing in front of the exterior gate of in his attic studio in Rue des Grands Augustins, Paris]

[Reservists having a last drink at cafe before mobilization, Paris]

[French Reservists seatting at cafe, having a last drink before mobilization, Paris]

Coucy-le-Château, one of the show places of France. Occupied by the Huns throughout the duration of the war, and when forced to retreat in Oct. 1918, they destroyed this famous ruin by exploding mines in the foundations

[Reservists having a last drink at cafe before mobilization, Paris]

[French reservists having a last drink at cafe before leaving for duty, Paris]

[French reservist seatting at cafe before leaving for duty, Paris]

[French reservists seatting at cafe before leaving for duty, Paris]

[Christian Dior touching his face, Paris]

[Pablo Picasso standing on the steps of his studio in Rue des Grands Augustins, Paris]

[Karel Appel painting with his fingers in front of a window in his studio in Rue Santeuil, Paris]

[French reservist seatting at cafe before leaving for duty, Paris]